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Hereupon Zenodorus was grieved, in the first place, because his principality
was taken away from him; and still more so, because he envied Herod, who
had gotten it; So he went up to Rome to accuse him, but returned back again
without success. Now Agrippa was [about this time] sent to succeed Caesar
in the government of the countries beyond the Ionian Sea, upon whom Herod
lighted when he was wintering about Mitylene, for he had been his particular
friend and companion, and then returned into Judea again. However, some
of the Gadarens came to Agrippa, and accused Herod, whom he sent back bound
to the king without giving them the hearing. But still the Arabians, who
of old bare ill-will to Herod's government, were nettled, and at that time
attempted to raise a sedition in his dominions, and, as they thought, upon
a more justifiable occasion; for Zenodorus, despairing already of success
as to his own affairs, prevented [his enemies], by selling to those Arabians
a part of his principality, called Auranitis, for the value of fifty talents;
but as this was included in the donations of Caesar, they contested the
point with Herod, as unjustly deprived of what they had bought. Sometimes
they did this by making incursions upon him, and sometimes by attempting
force against him, and sometimes by going to law with him. Moreover, they
persuaded the poorer soldiers to help them, and were troublesome to him,
out of a constant hope that they should reduce the people to raise a sedition;
in which designs those that are in the most miserable circumstances of
life are still the most earnest; and although Herod had been a great while
apprized of these attempts, yet did not he indulge any severity to them,
but by rational methods aimed to mitigate things, as not willing to give
any handle for tumults.

Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.

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